In this week's Futures Lab update, we find out what Google Glass is really like as a reporting tool.

This week we explore how documentary video and interactive technologies can be combined to tell new kinds of immersive, in-depth stories online.

Journalism 360 is an initiative to help journalists experiment with immersive storytelling through events, training, grants, Medium posts and Google Hangouts. The effort aims to connect journalists and build a community around 360 video and augmented and virtual reality for news.

Shannon McGregor and the team at the Engaging News Project believe analytics data can do a lot more than just help newsrooms attract audience. Through academic research out of the University of Texas at Austin, the Engaging News Project seeks to find ways newsrooms can use data to better understand what people really need.

This week we learn how two major public radio providers are responding to the rise of audio listening on smartphones and other Internet-connected devices.

Anchor is an iOS app that allows users to interact and engage through audio recordings. These audio conversations can be shared on social media or exported to include in other broadcasts. Reporting by Sarah Sabatke.

In this week's Futures Lab update, the Reynolds Journalism Institute brings you three examples of how news is being reengineered for people on the go.

This week we see how a platform like Newscred is helping brand marketers assemble news stories to engage current and potential customers, and we find out what attributes contribute to a video going viral.

In this week's Futures Lab update, hear about trends shaping news in the future and learn about a startup aimed at providing news and information to "the change generation."

This week we explore a tool that checks the authenticity of photos, and we see a new approach to audio news on the Web.